Joel Now containing 100\% E-Wang
9,368 posts · joined Feb 2006 ·
the 1500 semiautos had the VWautomatic script and possibly Sbugs but i have a feeling Lbugs just had Volkswagen L same as manual, but thats easy enough changed
Semi automatic dubs
68AutoBug Beetle Restorer - Experience over 138\% - YIKES --
11,654 posts · joined Aug 2002 ·
smileyman3000 wrote:Some say that if you have vacuum in the tank you can turn the ignition on, put the car in gear, hold the gearstick sideways, get the car up to speed (pushing/rolling downhill). Then you release the gearstick (drop the clutch). Theoretically if you were going fast enough the torque converter would lock up and this method should work. But I have tried a number of times to roll start my semi auto down a hill and have so far been unsuccessful. That's not to say you can't, I might be doing it wrong.
Yes,
it IS possible to tow start a semi auto beetle...
but You had to be towed about 60KMH [from memory] to start it...
I have never tried this... lol
Lee
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Mike
the autosticks were always called the semi auto beetle in Australia...
but officially in Australian VW Advertising they were called automatics
Lee
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Joel,
I believe ALL semi auto beetles sold in Australia had the VW AUTOMATIC badge...
apart from the odd early one with the autostick SCRIPT badge..
LEE
- Helping keep Air Cooled VWs on the road - location: SCONE in the Upper Hunter Valley - Northern NSW 320 kms NNW of SYDNEY---
71-BEETLE-SEDAN AKA Josh
1,058 posts · joined Mar 2009 ·
Does anyone want my automatic badge ?
Smiley Veteran Volks Folk
2,125 posts · joined Oct 2008 ·
Does it have the 'Stick Shift' script?
If you said I was a Volkswagen man, you'd be right.
71-BEETLE-SEDAN AKA Josh
1,058 posts · joined Mar 2009 ·
Nope, wish it did but t doesnt.